Pleurothallis medusa Luer 1997 SUBGENUS Pleurothallis SECTION Pleurothallis SUBSECTION Pleurothallis SERIES Pleurothallis Luer 1986 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Medusa Pleurothallis [an allusion to how the long entwined sepals of the flowers look on the inflorescence]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 2600 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with slender ramicauls enveloped with a tubular sheath near the middle and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, acute, acuminate, cuneate below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of numerous, simultaneous single flowered inflorescence arising through and concealed by a spathe below the apex of the ramicaul.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide;

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